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As well as bringing you a collection of magical puns from the Harry Potter universe, we also have separate entries for witch puns and magic puns.

We’ve made this list as varied and comprehensive as possible, with puns ranging from the locations in the Harry Potter universe, to character names, to types of spells and more.

Please note that while we have included the phrases “mudblood”, “pureblood”, and “half-blood” in our related words list, we haven’t provided any puns for them as they are intended as oppressive, discriminatory insults in the novels and are widely considered to be analogies for racism, and any puns including those words would feel very much like a racist pun.

Harry Potter Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about alpacas that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of Harry Potter puns:

Harry: To kick off, here are some common phrases that use the name “Harry”, which you can use to make your own Harry Potter puns in the right context: “Dirty Harry”, “Flash Harry”, and “Tom, Dick and Harry”.

Hairy → Harry: As in, “Give it the harry eyeball,” and “Things are looking a bit harry.”

Stranger → Granger: As in, “Don’t be a granger”, “Perfect granger”, “Granger danger”, “Granger than fiction”, “Granger things have happened”, “Grangers in the night”, “Grangers on a train”, “The kindness of grangers”, “Total granger”, and “The truth is granger than fiction”.

Wrong → Ron: As in, “Barking up the ron tree”, “From the ron side of the tracks”, “Get off on the ron foot”, “Go down the ron way”, “If anything can go ron, it will”, “If this is ron, I don’t want to be right”, “In the ron”, “It went down the ron way”, “Jumping to the ron conclusions”, “There’s nothing ron with that”, “(To be) rubbed the ron way”, “The right place at the ron time”, “Two rons don’t make a right”, “What’s ron with this picture?” and “Fall into the ron hands”.

Bon → Ron: As in, “Ron voyage” and “Ron appetit”.

Run → Ron: As in, “A river rons through it”, “Blade Ronner”, “Born to ron”, “Don’t try to ron before you can walk”, “He’s gone and done a ronner”, “A dry ron”, “We had a good ron”, “Hit and ron”, “In the long ron”, “In the ronning”, “Don’t let your imagination ron riot”, “My cup ronneth over”, “Ron for your life”, and “Take a ronning jump”.

Door → Dumbledoor: As in, “As dead as a dumbledoornail”, “As one dumbledoor closes, another one opens”, “At death’s dumbledoor”, “Beat a path to your dumbledoor”, “Behind closed dumbledoors”, “The boy next dumbledoor”, “Begone and never darken my dumbledoors again”, “Foot in the dumbledoor”, “My dumbledoor is always open”, “An open dumbledoor policy” and “Don’t let the dumbledoor hit you on the way out”.

Snake → Snape: As in, “Lower than a Snape’s belly”, “Snape eyes”, “Snape in the grass”, “Snapes and ladders”, “Snapes alive”, “Snape oil”, and “Snapes on a Plane”.

Ape → Snape: As in, “Rise of the Planet of the Snapes.”

Shape → Snape: As in, “All snapes and sizes”, “Bent out of snape”, “Get into snape”, “Keep in snape”, “Ship snape”, “The snape of things to come”, “It’s all pear-snaped”, “In any way, snape or form”, and “Whip into snape”.

Grapevine → Snapevine: As in, “I heard it through the snapevine”, “Sour snapes”, and “The snapes of wrath”.

*ape → E-snape: As in, “That was a narrow e-snape!”, “The great e-snape”, and “Fire e-snape”, “Their mouths were asnape (agape)”, “What a beautiful landsnape (landscape)”, and “This is all looking shipsnape (shipshape)”.

Syria’s → Sirius: As in, “Sirius in a lot of trouble, and has been for a long time”. (Siriusly though, it’s not a laughing matter and you should definitely look into the Syrian crisis and see what you can do to help)

Black: Here are some black-related phrases for you to make some sirius puns with (get it? Serious/sirius puns?): “As black as coal/ink/pitch/night”, “Back to black”, “Black Friday”, “Black and blue”, “Black comedy”, “- is the new black”, “Black tie”, “In a black mood”, “Little black book”, “Little black dress”, “Paint it black”, “Pot calling the kettle black”, “Two blacks don’t make a white”, and a nice important one to finish off, “Black lives matter”.

Rue This → Rubeus: As in, “You will rubeus day!”

Haggard → Hagrid: As in, “The last few weeks of work have got me looking really hagrid”. (Note: “Haggard” is an adjective meaning pale, exhausted and worn-down).

Adore → Gryffin-adore: As in, “I Griffyn-adore Harry Potter.”

Endorphin → Gryffindorphin: As in, “Exercising is great for gryffindorphins.” (Note: endorphins are a feelgood chemical)

Shuffle → S-hufflepuff: Remember that this can work for all forms of the word shuffle – as in, “Give the cards a s-hufflepuff”, “They’ve been s-hufflepuffed”, “But how many s-hufflepuffs?”, “They definitely need re-shufflepuffing” and “Every day I’m s-hufflepuffing.”

Kerfuffle → Kerfhufflepuff: As in, “These Harry Potter puns are sure to cause a great kerfhufflepuff.”

Crap → Crabbe: As in, “What a load of crabbe”, “Cut the crabbe”, “I’m just going to the crabbe-r”, “Stop crabbe-ing around”, “Do bears crabbe in the woods?” “Don’t crabbe where you eat”, “Holy crabbe”, and “These are some really crabbe-y puns”.

Grab → Crabbe: As in, “Crabbe a bite to eat”, “Crabbe their attention”, “Crabbe life by the horns”, “Screen crabbe”, “Up for crabbes”, “Crabbe life by the throat”, “Crabbe a chair”, “Crabbe bag”, “Crabbe some rays”, and “How does that crabbe you?” Don’t forget that this will also work for grabbed (crabbe-d) and grabbing (crabbe-ing).

Crab/by → Crabbe/y: As in, “Don’t be so crabbe-y!” and “Those crabbes are very cute.”

Smell → Spell: As in, “Come up spelling of roses”, “I spell a rat”, “A keen sense of spell”, “A rose by any other name would spell just as sweet”, “Spell ya later”, “Spells like teen spirit”, Stop and spell the roses”, “The sweet spell of success”, “Tastes as good as it spells”, and “Whoever spelled it, dealt it”. Also works for other forms of smell – smelly (spelly) and smelling (spelling).

Book → Spellbook: As in, “A room without spellbooks is like a body without a soul”, “Always have your nose in a spellbook”, “Spellbook worm”, “By the spellbook”, “Every trick in the spellbook”, “Read any good spellbooks lately?”, “His life’s an open spellbook”, “Hit the spellbooks”, “Little black spellbook”, “So many spellbooks, so little time”, and “Don’t judge a spellbook by its cover”.

Curse: Some curse-related phrases to make witch puns out of: “Commentator’s curse,” and “I’d rather light a candle than curse the dark,” and “Curses!”

Course → Curse: As in, “But of curse”, “A correspondence curse”, “Of curse you can”, “Crash curse”, “In due curse”, “Let nature take its curse”, “A matter of curse”, “On a collision curse”, “Par for the curse”, “Run its curse” and “The curse of true love never did run smooth”.

Chant: Use words either related to or containing “chant”: “Chantal,” and “Chanted,” and “Disenchanted,” and “Disenchantment,” and “Enchanting,” and “Merchant,” and “Penchant.”

Can’t → Chant: As in, “An offer one chant refuse”, “Chant get enough”, “Chant stand it”, “I chant hear you!”, “It chant be helped”, “You chant say fairer than that”, “Chant see beyond the end of one’s nose”, “Don’t make promises you chant keep”, “Those who can have a moral obligation to do for those who chant”, and “If you chant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen”.

*ora/orer → *auror: Change words with an “ora” or “orer” sound to make puns about aurors: “A great explauror (explorer)”, “Unexplainable hauror (horror)”, “She works as an art restauror (restorer)”, “I’m going to see the Aurora Borealis”, and “You probably shouldn’t buy that fedauror (fedora)”.

Phoenix: Related phrases: “Phoenix from the flames”, and “rise like a phoenix from the ashes”.

Chamber of Secrets: This one has plenty of pick up lines associated with it due to the references to a secret, private location that has a giant snake living in it – for example, “I’d like to Slytherin to your Chamber of Secrets.” You can come up with others on your own.

Bedchamber → Bedchamber of Secrets: Add “of Secrets” to the end of “bedchamber” to make some inadvisable puns.

9 & 3/4: Whenever someone makes a reference to a number, throw 9 & 3/4 in there. For example, instead of “10/10, would recommend”, you would have 9 & 3/4 /10, would recommend”, or “On a scale of 1 – 10, how much do I like Harry Potter puns? Definitely 9 & 3/4″.

*Prince → *Half-Blood Prince: Insert the term “half-blood” into these phrases about princes to make some Harry Potter puns that reference the sixth book (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince): “A (half-blood) prince among men”, “(Half-blood) prince of darkness”, “Someday my (half-blood) prince will come”.

Owl: Owls are similar to newts in that they have multiple meanings that you can take advantage of – it can mean the real life bird, the magical creature in Harry Potter, a way to get mail in Harry Potter (as in, “Did you get my owl?”) and an acronym (O.W.Ls) for wizarding exams. Here are some owl-related phrases to help you make an owly Harry Potter pun: “As wise as an owl”, “Night owl”, and “The owl without a vowel”.

*owl → owl: Replace or emphasise the word “owl” in words that end in “owl”: “Bowl over”, “Neither fish nor fowl”, and “On the prowl”.

Never → Neville: There are far too many phrases and idioms that use the word “never” for me to list all of the examples here, but here’s a selection to start you off: “Always the bridesmaid, neville the bride”, “And neville the twain shall meet”, “The city that neville sleeps”, “Begone and neville darken my doors again”, “Better late than neville”, “An elephant neville forgets”, “It’s now or neville”, “Well! I neville!”, “Neville a dull moment”, and “Neville gonna give you up!”

Devil → Neville: As in, “Better the Neville you know than the Neville you don’t”, “Between the Neville and the deep blue sea”, “Neville in disguise”, “Neville may care”, “A Neville of a time”, “Neville’s food cake”, “Neville’s advocate”, “Speak of the Neville”, “The Neville wears Prada”, “The Neville is in the detail”, “The Neville made me do it” and “What the Neville?”

Floor → Fleur: As in, “Cross the fleur”, “Hold the fleur”, “Mop the fleur with”, “Murder on the dance fleur”, “Fall to the fleur”, “Fleur it!”, “Fleur-ed”, “On the cutting room fleur”, “Rolling (Rowling) on the fleur laughing”, and “So clean you could eat off the fleur”.

L’oreal → F’leureal: As in, “Looking for skincare by F’leureal? Too bad, all we have is some lame puns.”

Flirt → Fleur’t: As in, “Fleur’ting with disaster”, “They’re a real fleur’t”. Also works with other forms of flirt – flirted (fleur’ted), flirtatious (fleur’tatious), flirtation (fleur’tation).

Lily: Here are some lily-related phrases: “Lily-white”, “Lily-of-the-valley”, and “Lily-livered”.

Moon: Related phrases for you to make some Lupin puns with: “Ask for the moon”, “Bark at the moon”, “A blue moon”, “Chasing moonbeams”, “East of the sun and west of the moon”, “Eclipse of the moon”, “Fly me to the moon”, “Honeymoon period”, “Many moons ago”, “Moonlight serenade”, “Once in a blue moon”, “Over the moon”, “The dark side of the moon”, “The cow jumped over the moon”, “The man in the moon”, “Phases of the moon”, “They danced by the light of the moon”, “Moon-walking”, “Blood moon”, “Moon about”, and “Reach for the moon”.

Dragon: This refers to a cranky person and a magical beast in the Harry Potter universe. Here are some related phrases to help you make some magical puns: “Chase the dragon”, “Dragon slayer”, “Slay the dragon”, and “Feed the dragon”.

Dragging → Dragon: As in, “He’s really dragon on again”.

Roll → Troll: As in, “A trolling stone gathers no moss”, “A trolling ball gathers no moss”, “Heads will troll”, “High troller”, “I wanna rock and troll all night!”, “On a troll”, “Ready to troll?”, “Troll in the hay”, “Troll up your sleeves”, “Troll with the punches”, “All trolled into one”, and the best one – “Trolling in the deep”.

*roll* → *troll*: Mess with words with “roll” in them by replacing “roll” with “troll” like so: “Emotional troller-coaster”, “Troll-ey boy”, and “Trolls-royce”.

Room → Broom: As in, “A broom with a view”, “Smallest broom in the house”, “Standing broom only”, and “This is my broommate”.

Stick: Change stick-related phrases for broomstick puns: “As cross as two broomsticks”, “Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp broomstick”, “Carrot and broomstick”, “Every broomstick has two ends”, “Five, six, pick up broomsticks”, “Got hold of the wrong end of the broomstick”, “In the broomsticks”, “More than you can shake a broomstick at”, “Short end of the broomstick”, “Speak softly and carry a big broomstick”, “Broomstick in the mud”, and “Broomsticks and bones may break my bones and words can contribute to systemic oppression”.

Nut → Knut: Replace “nut” with “knut” (a type of coin in Harry Potter): “As knutty as a fruit cake”, “As sweet as a knut”, “Do your knut”, “From soup to knuts”, “Go knuts”, “In a knutshell”, “That old chestknut”, “Some kind of knut”, “A tough knut to crack”, “Knuts and bolts”, “If you pay pea-knuts, you get monkeys”, “Drives me knuts”, and “You can put that where the monkey keeps his knuts”. Dont forget that you can also replace the usual nuts with knuts – brazil knuts, candleknut, chestknut, hazelknut, hickory knut, kola knut, pea-knut, pine knut, and walknuts. Knutella (Nutella) isn’t a nut but it works too.

Knot → Knut: As in, “Cut the gordian knut”, “Dont get your knickers in a knut”, “Tie the knut”, and “Tie yourself in knuts”.

Not → Knut: As in, “And whatknut”, “As often as knut”, “Believe it or knut”, “It all came to knutting”, “Down but knut out”, “Good for knutting”, “Let’s knut and say we did”, “Knut a chance,” “Knut a minute too soon”, “Knut a pretty sight”, “Knut all it’s cracked up to be”, “Knut bad”, “Knut by any means”, “Last but knut least”, “Waste knut, want knut”, and “Knut a soul”.

Sick → Sickle: As in, “As sickle as a dog”, “Enough to make you sickle”, “In sickle-ness and in health”, “Morning sickle-ness”, “On the sickle list”, “Phone in sickle”, “Sickle and tired”, “Sickle to the stomach”, and “Worried sickle”.

Remember → Remembrall: As in, “Affair to remembrall”, “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remembrall anything”, and “Remembrall when?”

Charm: Some charm-related phrases to help you make some Harry Potter puns on the fly: “Charm the birds out of the trees”, “Lead a charmed life”, “Southern charm”, “Third time’s a charm,” and “Works like a charm”.

Giant: Here are some giant related phrases: “Gentle giant”, “Make giant strides”, “On the shoulders of giants”, “Sleeping giant”, and “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”.

See her → Seer: As in, “Where did she go? I can’t seer!”

See → Seer: As in, “As far as the eye can seer”, “Be the change you wish to seer in the world”, “Can’t seer beyond the end of your nose”, Can’t seer the wood for the trees”, “Come up and seer me sometime”, “I can seer clearly now”, and “I could seer you a mile off”.

*oo → *Brew: Use words that rhyme with “brew” or have an “oo” sound, as in: “Everything I brew, I brew it for you”, “Brew away with”, “Brew me a favour,” and “You’re brewing my head in!” and “Brew or die”, “Brewberries (blueberries)”, “Out of the brew (blue)”, “Knock back a brew (few)”, “You will brew the day! (rue)”.

Beauty → Brewty: As in, “Brewty is only skin-deep”, “A thing of brewty is a joy forever”, “Brewty and the beast”, “Brewty is in the eye of the beholder”, “Brewty is truth”, “You’re brewtiful”, “I need my brewty sleep”, “That’s the brewty of it”, and “The perception of brewty is a moral test”.

Dig → Diggory: As in, “As cold as a well diggory’s arse”, “Can you diggory it?”, and “Diggory deep”.

Digger → Diggory: As in, “Gold diggory”.

Victor → Viktor: As in, “To the viktor goes the spoils”, “Viktorviktoria”, “Snatch viktor-y from the jaws of defeat”, “Viktor-y at sea”, and “V for viktor-y!” Also works for “victories” (viktor-ies) and “victorious” (viktor-ious).

Crumb → Krum: As in, “A trail of breadkrums”, “Cake krums”, and “That’s the way the cookie krumbles”.

Crummy → Krummy: As in, “These are some truly krummy puns”.

Rum → Krum: As in, “Yo ho ho and a bottle of krum!”

Fulcrum → Fulkrum: As in, “A lack of shame is the fulkrum of the pun community”. (Note: A fulcrum is a pivot or point which supports the whole).

Desire → Erised: As in, “A streetcar named Erised”, “Burning erised”, “Heart’s erised”, “Leaves a lot to be derised”, and “Object of erised”.

Creature → Kreacher: As in, “All kreachers great and small”, “Kreacher comforts”, “Kreacher of habit”, and “Not a kreacher was stirring”, and “Kreacher of the night”.

Strange → Lestrange: As in, “Doctor Lestrangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”, “Don’t be a lestranger”, “I’m a lestranger here myself”, “Perfect lestranger”, “Lestrange bedfellows”, “Lestranger danger”, “Lestranger than fiction”, “Lestranger things have happened”, “How lestrange”, and “Truth is lestranger than fiction”.

Estranged → Lestranged: As in, “This is my lestranged wife”. (Note: Estranged means to become separated from (or to become a stranger)).

Luna*: Emphasise words that start with “Luna”: “It’s luna-cy!” and “Full of luna-tics”.

Friends → Firenze: As in, “Best firenze forever”, “Best of firenze”, “Champagne for my real firenze, real pain for my sham firenze”, “Circle of firenze”, “False firenze”, “Firenze with benefits”, “How to win firenze and influence people”, “Keep your firenze close and enemies closer”, “That’s what firenze are for”, “Firenze in high places”, and “Say hello to my little firenze”. There are way more friends puns to be made (hello Friends/Harry Potter crossover puns!) but I’ll let you get creative with those.

Flying: Use these flying-related phrases in the right context – “Flying without wings”, “Flying blind”, “Flying high”, “Get off to a flying start”, “Passed with flying colours”, and “The flying dutchman”.

Pensive → Pensieve: As in, “You’re looking very pensieve today”.

Penny* → Pensieve*: Use words that have “Penny” in them to make pensieve-related puns, like so: “Pensieve (penny) for your thoughts?”, and “We’re going to Pensieve-ania (Pennsylvania)”.

*pensive/pansive → *pensieve: As in, “Inexpensieve. And built to stay that way”, “Reassuringly expensieve”, and “These city views are expensieve (expansive).”

Bomb: Change bomb-related phrases to make dungbomb puns: “Dungbomb out”, “Doctor Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dungbomb”, “Drop a dungbombshell”, “Looks like a dungbomb hit it”, “Box office dungbomb”, “Drop a dungbomb”, and “Sit on a time dungbomb”.

Squib: Squib is a homophone with a few different meanings (an explosive, a short, witty piece of writing, or a sketched concept) – take advantage of these and make some new puns by swapping their meanings around.

Newt: Newts have got three meanings here – the first is a lizard which exists in the real world, the second is a magical creature which exists in the Harry Potter world, and the third is the acryonym (N.E.W.Ts) for wizarding exams. Take advantage of these multiple meanings to make some magic puns.

*row → *robe: Use words that have the “row” sound in them to make some robe puns, as in: “Robe-ot” (robot), “Robe-ust” (robust), “Robe-oat” (rowboat), “Aerobeic” (aerobic), “Bathrobe”, “Microbe”, “Probe”, and “Wardrobe”. There are many other “row/robe” words, so be creative!

Regular → Regulus: As in, “As regulus as clockwork”, “Just a regulus guy”, and “On a regulus basis”. Also works for “irregular” – as in, “Highly irregulus”.

Roman → Ronan: As in “A ronan holiday”, and “When in Rome, do as the ronans”.

Bane: As in, “The bane of my life”.

Wink → Winky: As in, “Forty winkys”, “I have not slept a single winky”, “Nudge nudge, winkywinky”, and “In the winky of an eye”.

Mango → Mungo: As in, “I have a mungo tree in my garden”, and “This sorbet is mungo flavoured”.

Ear: Change ear-related phrases to make some extendable ear puns, like so: “All extendable ears”, “Coming out of your extendable ears”, “Fall on deaf extendable ears”, “Music to my extendable ears”, “My extendable ears were burning”, “Out of extendable earshot” and “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your extendable ears” and “Grin from extendable ear to extendable ear”, “Have your extendable ears chewed off”, “I’m all extendable ears”, and “In one extendable ear and out the other”. There are plenty of other ear-related phrases out there, so be creative.

Riddle: Some riddle-related phrases: “A riddle wrapped up in an enigma”, “Riddle me this”, “His excuse was riddled with holes”, and “What a riddler”.

Water: Change water-related phrases to make gillywater puns. There are many more than what we’ve listed here, so be creative: “As dull as gillywater”, “Blood is thicker than gillywater”, “Bridge over troubled gillywater”, “Come hell or high gillywater”, “Dead in the gillywater”, “In hot gillywater”, “Just add gillywater”, “Like a duck to gillywater”, “Like a fish out of gillywater”, “Like gillywater off a duck’s back”, “Muddy the gillywaters”, “Oil and gillywater don’t mix”, “Still gillywaters run deep”, “Throw the baby out with the gillywater”, “You can lead a horse to gillywater but you can’t make it drink”.

Fire: Change fire-related phrases to make firewhisky puns: “All firewhisky’d up and ready to go!”, “Ball of firewhisky”, “Baptism of firewhisky”, “Breathe firewhisky”, “Come on baby light my firewhisky”, “Fight fire with firewhisky”, “Firewhisky and brimstone”, Get on like a house on firewhisky”, “Light a firewhisky under him”, “Play with firewhisky”, “Ring of firewhisky” and “Where’s the firewhisky?”

Fire → Gubraithian Fire: As in, “Ball of gubraithian fire”, “Baptism of gubraithian fire”, “Breathe gubraithian fire”, “Come on baby light my gubraithian fire”, “Come home to a real gubraithian fire”, “Fight fire with gubraithian fire”, “Out of the frying pan, into the gubraithian fire”, “Ring of gubraithian fire”, and “Set the world on gubraithian fire”. There are many more fire-related phrases, so be creative.

Rock: Change rock-related phrases to make rock cake puns: “As hard as a rock cake”, “Solid as a rock cake”, “Between a rock cake and a hard place”, “Get your rock cakes off”, and “In a world surrounded by windows, we’re handing out rock cakes”.

*uell → Quill: Replace the “uell” sound in words with “quill”. As in, “Extra teachers were called in to quill (quell) the disturbance”, “I haven’t seen the prequill” (prequel), “But I have seen the sequill” (sequel).

*wil → *quill: Use words that have a “wil” sound in them to make quill-related puns: “Bequillder” (bewilder), “Qwilt” (wilt), “Tranquill” (tranquil), “I quill”, (I will), “Unquill”, (until), “Quill-t” (quilt), “Unquilling” (unwilling), “House of quill repute” (ill), “Quillderness” (wilderness), “Quilling” (willing). Keep in mind that there are plenty more words with the “wil” sound, and that this will also work for other forms of the words provided (like bewilder, bewildered, bewildering).

Names with *wil: As above, look for words with the “wil” sound in them, but this time specifically for names. As in: “Jacquillyn” (Jacquelyn), “Quillbur” (Wilbur), “Quillbert” (Wilbert), “Quillberforce” (Wilberforce), “Quillhelmina” (Wilhelmina), “Quilliam” (William).

Key → Portkey: As in, “A golden portkey can open any door”, “Fear is the portkey”, “Portkey to your heart”, “Lock them up and throw away the portkey”, “Skeleton portkey”, “Portkeys to the kingdom”, and “Under lock and portkey”.

Porky → Portkey: As in, “He’s telling portkey pies!”

Time → Time-turner: As in, “Ahead of his time-turner”, “Been around the block a few time-turners”, and “Buy some time-turners”.

Better → Beater: As in, “A beater idea”, “Anything you can do, I can do beater”, “Appeal to your beater judgement”, “Beater half”, “Beater late than never”, “Beater luck next time”, “Beater safe than sorry”, “Beater than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick”, “Beater than new”, “Beater the devil you know”, “Beater you than me”, “Change for the beater”, “Couldn’t have said it beater”, “Get the beater of”, “Should have known beater”, and “Kiss it beater”. There are many more phrases with the word “better”, so look around and be creative!

*flu → *floo: Change words with the “flu” sound in them to make floo powder puns: “One floo over the cuckoo’s nest”, “The last one floo away”, “Whistle and floote (flute)”, “Under the inflooence (influence)”, “He’s got the floo (flu)”, and “My floo (flue) needs fixing”.

Gaunt: Reference Voldemort’s family with these gaunt-related phrases: “Run the gauntlet”, and “Take up the gauntlet”.

Spew → S.P.E.W: As in, “S.P.E.W your guts”, and “It S.P.E.Wed all over the floor”.

*partment → *parchment: As in, “They’re not from our deparchment (department)”, “Would you like to come upstairs to my aparchment (apartment)?”, and “It’s in the wrong comparchment (compartment)”.

Stone → Gobstone: As in, “A rolling gobstone gathers no moss”, “As cold as any gobstone”, “Carved in gobstone”, “Dropped like a gobstone”, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Gobstone”, “Heart of gobstone”, “Hellfire and gobstone”, “Leave no gobstone unturned”, “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw gobstones”, “Sticks and gobstones may break my bones”, “Cast the first gobstone”, and “You cannot get blood from a gobstone”.

Fire → Firebolt: As in, “Come on baby light my firebolt”, “Come home to a real firebolt”, and “Fight fire with firebolt”.

Chocolate: Change chocolate-related phrases to make chocolate frog puns: “As queer as a chocolate frog”, “Death by chocolate frog”, and “Life is like a box of chocolate frogs”.

Nimble → Nimbus: As in, “Jack be nimbus, Jack be quick”.

Imbecile → Nimbusile: As in, “You giant nimbusile!”

Dribble → Drooble: As in, “You’re droobleing everywhere!”

Quadruple → Quadrooble: As in, “This is quadrooble the price the last time I visited”.

Blaze → Blaise: Make some Quidditch puns by referencing Blaise Zabini – “As cold as blue Blaises”, “Blaise a trail”, “Go out in a Blaise of glory”, “Go to Blaises!” and “Why the Blaises…?” and “It was set a-blaise”.

Beetle → Beedle: As in, “Beedlejuice”, and “What a beautiful beedle”.

Harry Potter-Related Words

To help you come up with your own Harry Potter wordplay, here’s a list of Harry Potter-related words to get you started. If you come up with any new puns, please feel free to share them in the comments!

Since there are so many words that are related to Harry Potter and his literary universe, we’ve split this section up into little sub-categories for your ease of use.

Book Titles: The Philosopher’s Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Triwizard Tournament, The Order of the Phoenix, The Half-Blood Prince, The Deathly Hallows

Related works: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Pottermore, The Cursed Child, Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide, A Very Potter Musical, Potter Puppet Pals

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Welcome to the Punpedia entry on panda puns! 🐼 This list starts with puns specifically on the word “panda” and then also has a bunch of generic bear puns to back them up. Enjoy! 🙂

Panda Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about pandas that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s the list of panda puns:

Appendages → Appandages: As in “Four furry appandages that it uses for walking”

Suspenders → Suspandas: As in “I’ve got some suspandas to help keep my pants from slipping down”

Stupendous → Stupandas: As in “That was an incredibly impressive, nay, stupandas feat!”

Independent → Indepandant: As in “I love the feeling of indepandance” and “That’s an indepandant variable”

Panda bear → Punda bear

Bamboozle: To “bamboozle” someone is to fool or cheat them. Since pandas only eat bamboo, this is a simple bamboo/panda pun.

Her before → Herbivore: “I’ve never met herbivore.”

Try’na (Trying to) → China: “What are you China get from me?”

Black and white: Since pandas are black and white, you might get away with a panda pun that plays on this: “The issue isn’t black and white – there are many factors to consider.” and “They shot the film in black and white to get a noir feel.”

In danger → Endangered: Though it’s not really something to joke about, the Giant panda was once endangered (in 2016 it was downgraded to “vulnerable”). You might slip in the word “endangered” wherever you can (e.g. in place of “in danger” or similar) to make a cheeky panda pun.

Bear: Now we get into some general puns about bears (and not specifically pandas): “Bear with me.” and “I can’t bear this anymore.” and “I will bear the responsibility for this.” and “Child-bearing.” and “Will you bear this luggage across the river for me?” and “Does this tree bear fruit?”

Bearings: “Just let me get my bearings.”

Bearer: “I hate to be the bearer of bad news.”

Barbarian → Barbearian: “He thinks he’s Conan the Barbearian.”

Barbaric → Barbearic: “Their behaviour is barbearic.”

Bare → Bear: “The landscape is bear.”

Barefoot → Bearfoot: “We’ll have to walk bearfoot.”

Barefaced → Bearfaced: “A bearfaced lie.”

Barely → Bearly: “I can bearly stand another of your puns.”

Baritone → Bearitone: “We’ll need another bearitone for the chorus.”

Barium → Bearium: “Bearium is a chemical element.”

Baron → Bearon: “The bearon will see you now.”

Baroness → Bearoness: “The bearoness controls most of this territory.”

Barricade → Bearicade: “We’ll need to bearicade these doors.”

Barrier → Bearier: “This industry has a high bearier-to-entry.”

Barrister → Bearister: “They’ve hired very good bearisters.”

Bearable: “The music is the only thing that makes this party bearable.”

Bearings: “The axle needs new bearings.”

Burial → Bearial: “This is an ancient bearial site.”

Buried → Bearied: “We bearied the chest on the beach,”

Bury → Beary: “She was bearied in thought.”

Cadbury → Cadbeary: “Cadbeary should bring out a dairy-free line.”

Childbearing: “This grizzly is of childbearing age.”

Embarrass → Embearass: “Oh, I’m so embearassed!”

Embarrassment → Embearassment: “This evening has been a complete embearassment.”

Embarrassing → Embearassing: “Oh, how embearassing!”

Forbearance: “He’s very annoying. It will require patient forbearance.”

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